- This is the big one! All weekend. To join the party, just click GENERAL CHAT in the bar at the bottom of the screen!
- Everyone is invited - even if you have never been on animeleague before you are still VERY welcome! Come join in!
- The party goes on from midday GMT on Saturday to well past Sunday midnight!
- Our own radio station going on throughout the day with DJs blasting out your favorite tunes. You can tune in @ www.animeleague.net/radio

SATURDAY EVENTS SCHEDULE

Midday - Get To Know & Chillout - Listen to your favourite tunes over the radio, meet and get to know the other chat-partiers!4pm - Welcome to the PARTY! - We kick off the proceedings and get ready for an epic weekend. Much fun and games, weee!7pm - Easter April Antics Night Live! - Fun and Partying as our hosts chat on air.10pm - Member Auction Everything to go! Bid for members with your credits. The winners get to own (in an entirely innocent way do note!) the person they win for the remainder of the chat party. Wooo!

SUNDAY EVENTS SCHEDULE

Midday - Get To Know and Chat/Radio Chillout - Listen to your favourite tunes over the radio and meet and get to know the other chat-partiers!4pm - AL Easter Trivia Quiz and Caption Contest - Various fun and games7pm - AL Happy Hour - My Hour of Fun! Grab some drinks, it's gonna be fun!8pm to 10pm - Radio RPG - 20 Rooms The humourous radio RPG with a twist.Rules explained on air. Want to join the RPG? Tune in and let us know!10pm till late - Party & Games! Grab a drink and let's party in to the night! Yay!

Time's running out to grab a discount ticket for Manchester Anime and Gaming Con this 8-9 April. You can get them HERE while they're still available at just £16 for the entire weekend (or £9 a day). After next week they will be full price. Benefits to buying online includes paying less and guaranteed entry. This will be our biggest ever event, make sure to not miss out.

#1. Event Timetable is Online & Much More News to Come!

Click HERE to go view the Timetable for the event now! As well as three stages, there will be more dealer stalls, more guests and more events than ever before. This includes the brand new cosplay connect stage, contests, a karaoke stage, anime screenings, live bands, far more video gaming, card gaming, board gaming, japanese food, parties, well over 100 anime, comic and gaming dealer stalls and so much more!

We'll be revealing our exhibitors, more of our guests, our stage presenters and many more surprises over the next few weeks, so make sure to stay up to date on our Manchester Anime & Gaming Con forums HERE and on our facebook event HERE.

For MAGC, everyone joins a clan which competes for points by winning events and so forth. Any events or tournaments you win will earn you points toward your choosen clan. It's a great way to get to know other attendees and have fun. Here's the clans HQs, go get involved now -

Mohrigan has been creating her own cosplaying since 2011. Since then she has done numerous cosplays involving armory and props. Currently lives in Virginia, United States. Besides cosplaying and crafting, her other hobbies include graphic design and gaming. You can often find her streaming in her Twitch channel be it a live game or her cosplay progress. She is also a dog sitter and during the stream you may see those cute little faces walking around or sleeping.

Friday 24th shall be our birthday, and to celebrate we have made a special AL Birthday section on the forums WHICH YOU CAN POST IN HERE, and the chatroom shall host a special birthday party/celebration

It's Animeleague's 15th Birthday this 24th February and to Celebrate we shall be running over a dozen events across every section on Animeleague, as well as a special Chat Party this Weekend. Stay tuned for more updates next week. For now, we can reveal these major events -

#1. Mini-Chat Party on 24th February

We shall be hosting a Chat Party on Friday 24th from 6pm to 10pm GMT on the AL Chatroom and Radio.

#2. AL Birthday Forum on 23-24 February

Next week we shall be making a special AL Birthday section on the forums! A place to tell us your best memories of being a part of Animeleague from the forums to the events. We also have a range of fun and exciting activities (shhh it's a secret!) to reveal on these two days too. It's gonna be a blast! Wooo!

#3. Events Across the Forums

Each section shall be running it's own event, and we shall also be running community-wide events as well. Click on each link below to check them out -

CA&W's Prompt Exchange: Pair up with someone to create work based on your partners prompts.A&M's Name That Pokemon: Guess the Pokemon from the picture to earn points and prizes!EZ's Guess That Song/Movie: Guess the music from a sound clip. Guess the movie from a picture. The person with the most points at the end wins.VG's Pokemon Sun/Moon Tournament: You have been challenged to the video games pokemon tournament! Are you ready to battle? CH's Cosplay Design Content: Design a cosplay by drawing, colouring, painting etc or show off a cosplay you have made! RS Alcon: Welcome to Roleplayers' Sanctuary's spin on ALcon. Show up as any character, original or fandom, and join in the festivities. Everyone's invited!CL's Raffle & CL's Ninja Game: CL presents a special Raffle Event, the more you post in CL the more chances you get to win, and for the first time CL is introducing the Ninja Game. Come join the mystery intrigue of the Orients. Where you will either be a Ninja secretly murdering Samurai or a Samurai seeking out the hidden Ninja to extract revenge.ALJís Lolcat Invasion: THE LOLCATS HEARD THERE WAS A PARTY ON AL! THEY'VE COME TO TAKE OVER THE FORUM WITH THEIR FUN!! Join in the games to play and win prizes!GDís Cake Hunt: Find the hidden cakes in threads to earn points.CNís First Letter/Last Letter: Join a clan and join in with our wintery-themed word game!Join Us In Entrance Hall: No birthday and more importantly, birthday party, is complete without friends. Why settle for just the ones you have when you can have more. Introduce yourself and chat with likeminded users in the Entrance Hall and, just maybe, make some lasting friends while youíre at it!

And we're live! Go register for Alcon 2017 NOW at http://www.alcon.org.uk Taking place this 31st August to 3rd September and better than ever with a brand new upgraded Student Union venue and voice actress of 400+ voices Monica Rial and internet sensation LittleKuriboh just highlights amongst many many more big announcements to come! Whether you're a cosplayer, anime fan, comic fan or gamer, there'll be something for you. Make sure not to miss out and get your ticket now!

#1. Two more big name international guests to be revealed
#2. Our full abridger lineup to be revealed
#3. Our full cosplay guest lineup to be revealed
#4. Awesome bands, performers and parties - we will reveal some of them!
#5. Speakers and special guests - again we will start to show you who we have!

This series of announcements will come on AL's birthday week (21st Feb to 25th Feb)

Make sure to register now while tickets are still available at just £45 for all four days!

If you're having issues with flash (or you're on a mobile device), you can listen listen HERE instead.

Alternatively Click HERE and open the file to listen via Winamp if you have it installed

The AL Happy 2017 Chatroom Party! (14-15 January - this weekend)

- All weekend. To join the party, just click GENERAL CHAT in the bar at the bottom of the screen!
- Everyone is invited - even if you have never been on animeleague before you are still VERY welcome! Come join in!
- The party goes on from midday GMT on Saturday to well past Sunday midnight!
Events - just like a real-convention but online! - we have events ALL day long - see the event planner at the bottom. We have quizes, cosplay, roleplay and lots more!
- Our own radio station going on throughout the day with DJs blasting out your favorite tunes. You can tune in @ www.animeleague.net/radio

SATURDAY EVENTS SCHEDULE

Midday - Get To Know & Chillout - Listen to your favourite tunes over the radio, meet and get to know the other chat-partiers!7pm - Welcome to the PARTY! - With your host @Ferefire we kick off the proceedings and get ready for an epic weekend. Much fun and games, weee!8pm to 10pm - 20 Rooms - - A radio RPG with a twist, where YOU the chatroom help decide the outcome. Rules explained on air. Want to join the RPG? Tune in and let us know! 10pm - Mike's Happy Hour! - My Hour of Fun! Grab drinks etc!

SUNDAY EVENTS SCHEDULE

Midday - Get To Know and Chat/Radio Chillout - Listen to your favourite tunes over the radio and meet and get to know the other chat-partiers!6pm - Animeleague Quiz - Test your knowledge in our quiz!7pm - Big Geek Night Live - Join us from 8pm onwards with special guest appearances from well known community-members and a variety of crazy music ranging from rock to disney to random youtube stuff. We'll have all the usual games including, blind date, auction, and so forth. It'll be a fantastic night of nonsenical games and sentimentality. Woo!9pm - Member Auction - Everyone's up for bid!10pm till late - The Party & Games Show! Grab a drink and let's party in to the night! Yay!

Get ready for a massive 2017 - this year we will be running EIGHT conventions from London to Cardiff to Manchester to Bristol, Cardiff and many other places. Make sure to put these dates down in your diary now -

- You can Register and Pay NOW for all of these events including for Alcon 2017.
- Alcon 2017 in September is our special four day event of the year. For 2017 it'll be even bigger and better than ever with the opening of the brand new bigger and better students union building for the event.- Interested in trying out our events in Manchester? It's just £16 total for both days - a bargain if you register and pay a month beforehand.
- Of course, we shall also be running free to enter Minicons and meetups around the country as well. Keep up to date on our fb @ https://www.facebook.com/AnimeleagueCosplay/ and on our forums @ http://www.animeleague.net/forum/

We also recommend to come and post on the Animeleague forums/chat - a great place to make new friends and get to know people before and after each event.

- Special one day chat party. From midday to midnight. To join the party, just click GENERAL CHAT in the bar at the bottom of the screen!
- Everyone is invited - even if you have never been on animeleague before you are still VERY welcome! Come join in!
- Events - just like a real-convention but online! - we have events ALL day long - see the event planner at the bottom. We have quizes, cosplay, roleplay and lots more!
- Our own radio station going on throughout the day with DJs blasting out your favorite tunes. You can tune in @ www.animeleague.net/radio

SATURDAY EVENTS SCHEDULE

Midday - Get To Know & Chillout - Listen to your favourite tunes over the radio, meet and get to know the other chat-partiers!5pm - Welcome to the PARTY! - With your host @Ferefire we kick off the proceedings and get ready for an epic weekend. Much fun and games, weee!7pm - Guess the Christmas Song - Come along and guess that festive song!9pm - Mike's Happy Hour - Bumper Christmas Special - My (Two) Hours of Fun! Grab those drinks, it's gonna be awesome!11pm - Member Auction - Get put up for auction or win someone!

Make sure not to miss the AL Festive Fun Chat Party this weekend - You and EVERYONE is invited! Make sure to stop by, it's a great chance to make new friends, and also has a load of mini-events including Cosplay Blind-Date, Member Auction, Radio RPG and more! To join in anytime, just click Chatroom at the bottom right to open the chatbox.

But that's just for Starters.. Get Ready..

We have tonnes of Events lined up for you from now until the middle of December. Every single section of AL is doing something. Here's our top 10 -

#1. Mega Festive Icebreaker - If you want to make friends and break the ice, come join us in Entrance Hall for our mega Icebreaker! Signup here.#2. Christmas Team Spam Wars - Hop in, join the fun, and sign up on another Spam War. The Reindeers will be kicking it and watching us battle to win. Santa will be hard at work as always this time of year. Join in here.#3. ALJ Festive Speed Dating - This is a great way to get to know people or maybe more. Check it out here.#4. Christmas Photo Event - Post your Christmas photos in General Discussion and earn awards/points here!#5. 12 Days of Christmas - The 12 days of Christmas song with an anime twist! Join in here.#6. ClanNation Winter Tournament - Christmas Cards, Short Stories, Holiday Music and Spam, we have it all! Hope over to ClanNation to join in here.#7. Creative Arts & Writing Secret Santa & AL Christmas Carol - Become a secret santa to send/receive presents (digital or physical). Join in with making our own version of A Christmas Carol. Signups: Secret Santa & Christmas Carol#8. Roleplayers' Sanctuary Events Hub - Come Join us for lots of holiday fun. We have four events planned this season: From a Snow Ball fight, to a Christmas Theme DnD Labyrinth. Check out our Event Hub for more details. #9. Animeleague 2016 Cosplay Community Awards - Win a pair of tickets to an Animeleague event of your choice (except Alcon) by posting up pictures of a Cosplay you have worn this year! Enter here.#10. AL New Years Meet Birmingham on 30th December to 2nd January - An epic three day meetup with bowling, arcades, shopping, bars, club etc planned! We have hotel rooms booked up, and beds available, so even if you're not Midlands based there's spaces to stay over for this. Signup here.

And More! There's other events also due to start off in the next few weeks. Make sure to stick around the forums and get involved in what is going to be a fantastic and fun holiday season here on Animeleague!